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THIS CODE IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED Here is all the code you need. This code will also work if your website used secure communication “https://.” <iframe src="https://aalbc.com/events/list-widget.php" style="border:none;width:100%; height:1500px"></iframe> Paste the single line of HTML code above on your website and you will be able to show, an automatically updated, events calendar on your website. The font size and color will follow that of your website's style. The height parameter may be modified, to suit your website as well. 2017 events will added shortly. Events that have occurred will roll off this display after the last day of the event, automatically. The video below shows you how easy it is to add the our events to your website or blog Or course if I'm missing an important event or festival. Please let me know (post the information below). My goal is to ultimately include English language events from around the world. Right now all of the events are in the United States and Caribbean. Enjoy! Oh creating this widget was @Mel Hopkins's idea If you run into any problems using this widget let me know. The events calendar widget code is used directly below. I changed the height parameter from 1500px to 400px so that less vertical space is used. I have added it to my Edit 1 (manuscript editing service) website too.

ON THE NEWS, BLACK SCHOOL PRINCIPALS IN DETROIT WAS STEALING MONEY MEANT FOR THE INNER CITY BLACK SCHOOLS/BLACK SCHOOL PRINCIPALS HAD BRIBERY SCHEMES, WITH THE MONEY FOR THE SCHOOLS.EACH PRINCIPAL GOT MANY THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS,NOT GIVING A DAMN ABOUT THE BLACK CHILDREN EDUCATION/SOME OF THE BLACK SCHOOLS , NAMED AFTER BLACK HISTORY GREATS, JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL, CHARLES DREW AND MARCUS GARVEY/THESE BLACK CROOKS ARE AS VILE EVIL AS THE WHITE REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR OF FLINT, NOT CARING ABOUT LEAD IN THE WATER, BECAUSE THE PEOPLE ARE POOR AND MOSTLY BLACK////BLACK PRINCIPALS WERE STEALING THE SCHOOL MONEY FROM 2002-2015////// NO COLOR ON EVIL////POOR COMMUNITIES IN DETROIT , BLACK PRINCIPALS STEALING MONEY MEANT FOR THE INNER CITY DETROIT SCHOOLS////////

Just one more way to connect our community! Wonderful work! @CDBurns , thanks! Waving hello to you from, Jawja!

LOL! No @Cynique didn't run me off. I'm working two projects, plus an essay that I absolutely have to finish! I am a published author/writer/journalist/filmmaker (short documentaries 48 hours class of 2000, the battle of fort henry and a few mini-docs relating to the new millennium) and have been for a minute. And I'm still here. I really enjoy my time here at AALBC...and because of my "hoarding" tendencies personality, I tend to spend too much time on the board. So it's best that I don't log on. You're right @Sara I am non-confrontational because I get to learn from so many perspectives when I don't "fight". As a writer, I started reading and listening more and what I found was while I may not agree initially; in the long run I do find something in the discourse that is agreeable. The latter helps me garner "mental real estate" - and that is something writers like us desperately need if we're going to have an audience. Anyway " sticking my head in for a minute to say "hi"!

Good stuff, now if only I can figure out why my site is loading so darn slow I would add it. I have to work on a few things with CBP, but as soon as it is done I will add the link somewhere. Nice suggestion Mel!

It's amusing that sara tries to pass herself off as a mature, civil person, when she is actually the anti-thesis of this. Another example of how she lies. Nor can she deal with rejection. 'Guess every time she has a liquid lunch we can look forward to her accomplishing the very easy task of making an ass of herself.

I visited Fisk the first time I went to Nashville. The legacy was impressive, the current state not so much. I can only image what that community must have been like during better times. You lived it Cynique :-) I got the same feeling when I read the Delany Sisters book Having Our Say. I have family that lived directly across the street from the school where the Delany Sister's father taught, Shaw University. My earliest memories were in that community. However I would be much older before I realized what Shaw was or how close it was to where I visited so many times as a kid. By the time I was of college age I would have zero interest in going to a Shaw or a Fisk. But is an indication of a much bigger problem, and perhaps helps explains why Fisk, Shaw and HBCU's in general are struggling to survive...

My girl. Reading what I considered to be the definitive biography of Nella Larsen several years ago, was what piqued my ongoing interest in the Harlem Renaissance. Nella was one of the lesser known authors in this movement, kind of overshadowed by Zora Neale Hurston, and led a rather complicated life. Why I have a special interest in her is that when I was 10 years old, I spent the summer in Nashville, Tennessee, with my Aunt who was affiliated with Fisk University. In Nella's biography it talked about the period she spent in Nashville because she was at one time married to a chemist who was a Fisk faculty member, and he and Nella were part of the social circle of other Fisk figures such as poet Arna Bontemps, sociologist Charles Johnson and musician John Work, all of whom were among the "new negroes" who comprised the Harlem Renaissance. As soon as I saw those names while reading Nella's bio, I realized that the children of these people were the kids I had played with during my summer in Nashville.

Pioneer you know all the examples and symptoms you described, eyeglasses, clothing, and cars, none of those thing cause and are diseases. I seriously doubt anyone who needs eye-glasses would agree with or care about your assertion that they cause weakness , not would any one who needs clothing to protect them from the weather or a car to transport them. Man lets keep thing in perspective. So called western civilization despite all of its ills has improved the quality of life, certainly if you measure it by life expectancy and infant mortality in particular. There are scientists you argue that modem man evolved because we cook food, not the other way around. Cooking food actually reduces greatly the amount of energy we need to exert in order to consume it. Man can consume meat just fine, we are adapted to do it. The whole notion that homo spaiens evolved to eat only vegetables flies in the face off all the available science, despite what some vegetarians might have you believe. Those vegans have the luxury of being vegetarians because they can go down to the Whole Foods and buy this stuff with relatively little effort. If these "nuts" were in the wild they would die from starvation or malnutrition come the first winter. Whenever someone starts a sentence with, "I believe God...." I stop listening, because what man know the mind of God? Who would presume to know what God knows. That is like an amoeba presuming to know what Einstein knows. Of course man was meant to eat meat. We are omnivorous.

It seems my Blog was bombarded by attempts to log into my admin account. The this barrage of attempts caused to to exceed the allocation of resources allocated to me by my web host. Which essentially brought down anything that uses a database, my Blog, large sections of my website site and this discussion forum. It took me 12 hours to resolve all of these issues--the long outage by website has suffered in 18 years. It really never ends. A bunch of IP address were blocked and I installed a plugin on my wordpress blog called Wordfence. Basically it will block any IP address that attempts multiple failed login's. This should prevent this problem from reoccurring. If you use the Wordpress CMS I encourage you to install Wordfence too. These are a few of the login attempts stopped today and it is not yet noon. Notice that my domain name and and "Admin" are popular login name. I would advise you to change your login name if you are using these. A user with IP address 149.156.172.1 has been locked out from the signing in or using the password recovery form for the following reason: Exceeded the maximum number of login failures which is: 20. The last username they tried to sign in with was: 'aalbc.com' User IP: 149.156.172.1 User hostname: zeus.wzks.uj.edu.pl User location: Krakow, Poland A user with IP address 186.202.141.67 has been locked out from the signing in or using the password recovery form for the following reason: Exceeded the maximum number of login failures which is: 20. The last username they tried to sign in with was: 'aalbc.com' User IP: 186.202.141.67 User hostname: cprohostinglin0839.publiccloud.com.br User location: Brazil A user with IP address 188.165.217.39 has been locked out from the signing in or using the password recovery form for the following reason: Exceeded the maximum number of login failures which is: 20. The last username they tried to sign in with was: 'admin' User IP: 188.165.217.39 User hostname: ns372224.ip-188-165-217.eu User location: France

You know it's never random when these attacks happen. They start with one person and then it radiates to their network. I currently use a combination of Akismet and Stop Spammers for my sneaker site since it has an auction site now. It's unfortunate, but I guess the job calls for vigilance.

No worries Chris, that is the nature of these things, it is not all that serious ;-). Though I agree forcing you to vote in every category gives people votes they would not have otherwise received. Thanks Mel for the social sharing as well.